Daniel Medin

Associate Professor

A recent fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Berlin) and visiting researcher at the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches Centre-Européennes (Sorbonne-Paris IV), Professor Medin joined the faculty of The American University of Paris in January 2010. He has taught German, English and comparative literature at Stanford University, Washington University in St. Louis and the Free University Berlin. His research is principally concerned with modern fiction from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with an emphasis on the work and global reception of Franz Kafka. He also teaches classes on contemporary world literature; writing from Central Europe; the history and culture of Berlin, Vienna, and Prague; Flaubert and the birth of modernism; editorial practice; and small prose forms. He is associate director of the Center for Writers and Translators and one of the editors of its Cahiers Series (published jointly with Sylph Editions in London). He is also co-editor of Music & Literature magazine, edits The White Review’s annual translation issue, and advises several journals and presses on contemporary international fiction. A judge for the Best Translated Book Award in 2014 and 2015, he served on the jury of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize.

Education/Degrees

PhD, Washington University in St. Louis

MA, Washington University in St. Louis

BA, University of Connecticut

Publications

Volume 8 of Music & Literature on and by Eric Chevillard, Mark Turner, and Unsuk Chin (edited volume), forthcoming.

Volume 7 of Music & Literature on and by Paul Griffiths, Lera Auerbach and Ann Quin (edited volume), May 2016.

Speaker at celebration of The White Review and Music & Literature at Hannah Barry Gallery, London, February 2015.

Moderator and speaker at launch event for Music & Literature no.5 (Kaija Saariaho, Stig Sæterbakken, Can Xue) at Nordic Embassies, Berlin, January 2015.

Panelist at presentation for Cahier de l’Herne edition on Franz Kafka, Goethe Institut Paris, December 2014.

Moderator and panelist for Celebrating Roberto Bolaño with Enrique Vila-Matas, Natasha Soobramanien, and Rodge Glass at Edinburgh International Book Festival, August 2014.

Moderator and interpreter for panels on contemporary Arabic literature with Samuel Shimon (novelist and editor of Banipal and Kikah magazines) and Margaret Obank (co-founder of Banipal) at the International Literature Festival, Berlin, September 2013.

Moderator and panelist at launch event for Cahier 18 (Elfriede Jelinek on Robert Walser) with Katie Kitamura and Damion Searls, McNally Jackson Bookstore in New York City, June 2013.